Improbable's Phelim McDermott directs the internationally acclaimed duo Mat Fraser and Julie Atlas Muz in Beauty and the Beast, an adult fairy tale like no other. What do you get when a born freak, a former beauty queen and an award-winning maverick Director tell the true story of Beauty and the Beast?
One night only - Please help salute renowned musicologist Rick Starr, former manager of the legendary Hollywood Sheet Music. Rick was a pillar of the entertainment community who offered his expertise in classic popular song and theatre music to scores of singers. All proceeds will be donated to The Actors Fund. Directed by David Galligan, celebrated director of the famed annual S.T.A.G.E. Benefit Concert Series. Musical director, Tom Griep, along with Randy Landas on bass and Denise Fraser on drums, leads an outstanding line-up of performers singing songs chosen for them by Rick. All proceeds will benefit The Actors Fund.
Voting opened this week for the 2013 BWW:UK Awards - and we've already had a record number of votes in!
West End actor Scott Garnham has launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund his 'Self Indulgent Ballad' project. The Self Indulgent Ballad is a comedy song written by the theatre performer and co-composer Steven Luke Walker.
Variety is pleased to announce that Jimmy Kimmel has been selected as the 2013 Honoree for the 4th Annual Variety's Power of Comedy event. The celebration will take place on November 16 at The Avalon Hollywood in Los Angeles and will be presented by Xbox One. Variety's Power of Comedy gala brings together Hollywood's most talented comedians in order to further The Noreen Fraser Foundation's mission of raising funds for women's cancer research.
Variety is pleased to announce that Jimmy Kimmel has been selected as the 2013 Honoree for the 4th Annual Variety's Power of Comedy event.
The Jungle's 2013 season concludes with DRIVING MISS DAISY, directed by Artistic Director Bain Boehlke, and starring Ivey Award-winning Wendy Lehr as Atlanta matriarch Daisy Werthan, and James Craven as her compassionate chauffeur, in his Jungle debut. Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, a searing, humorous and ultimately hopeful meditation on race relations in America, runs November 8-December 22, 2013 at the Jungle Theater, 2951 Lyndale Av. S. in Minneapolis. Check out a first look below!
The Daily Mail reports that Birgitte Hjort Sorensen will play Virgilia, the wife of Coriolanus, in Donmar Warehouse's upcoming production of the Shakespearean drama, starring Tom Hiddleston in the title role.
Fundamental Theater Project will present the upcoming staged reading of Supersoldier, a new rock musical with book, music and lyrics by Hair co-creator, Jim Rado. The reading is presented in collaboration with New York Theatre Barn, and will be directed by NYTB Artistic Director, Joe Barros. Ted Rado also serves as Co-Book Writer on the piece, and Steve Margoshes and Marteen Andruet join as Musical Directors.
George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick opens its 40th Anniversary Season with 'Gettin' the Band Back Together,' a rock musical sure to delight metropolitan area audiences.
Lisa D'Amour's play Detroit does not specifically take place in Michigan, but everything about it reminded me of my hometown. Daniel Meeker's stunning set presents us with a couple of middle-class suburban patios, shabby around the edges, with worn paint, cheap outdoor furniture, and stained concrete. There's even real grass on the stage - a nice touch that adds to the truth of what's about to happen.
As BroadwayWorld.com continues to celebrate the site's landmark 10th anniversary, with a variety of special features, today we're turning our spotlight on the wonderful photography of Linda Lenzi.
Breakfast With Mugabe, Fraser Grace's award-winning and critically acclaimed drama, currently in a limited run engagement at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Center, announces the addition of a performance tonight, October 6th at 7:30pm, to benefit the Actors Fund.
Now in its fifth consecutive year, the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre - the coalface of British Theatre - presents Vibrant 2013 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, its annual explosion of new writing, running between today, 6-25 October 2013
Kyle Golemba and Adam White have reason to celebrate: the debut of the recording of their all-Canadian musical theatre revue, Making Love in a Canoe. A 'sonnet to Canadian culture', Making Love in a Canoe features the work of 15 Canadian writers including Nancy White, Leslie Arden, and Jonathan Monro. With four never-before-recorded songs, the album promises to introduce even the most avid theatre-goer to the riches Canadian musicals have to offer.
Seven short one-act plays, each by a different writer, director and actors, bring the audience into ever-changing worlds of revenge, infidelity, friendship, religion and much more. Producers Andrew Faiz, Andy Fraser and Michael Ripley have framed the night to best showcase the story-telling talents of this remarkable group.
9 Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick has been rockin' every night since September 24 with music and laughter and we've got a first look at photos.
Following eight sold-out years of readings at The Players Club in Gramercy Park, Gingold Theatrical Group's PROJECT SHAW, under the leadership of Artistic Director, David Staller, is proud to announce that its new home for Shaw and his contemporaries will now be at Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre (2895 Broadway at 95th St.).
The Dallas Opera is set to revive—by popular demand—the exciting festivities marking the opening of a new season, known as FIRST NIGHT.
The Dallas Opera has announced that it will revive—by popular demand—the exciting festivities marking the opening of a new season, known as FIRST NIGHT. The one-night-only celebrations presented by NGP Energy Capital Management will take place both inside and outside the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in the Dallas Arts District, on Friday, October 25, 2013 beginning at 5:30 p.m. with a lavish black-tie dinner at 6:00 provided by Puck Catering in a beautifully appointed tent in Sammons Park (located just off the main promenade to the Winspear Opera House).
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